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Otto Kreisher

September 19, 2007
The American-European aerospace team seeking to win the massive Air Force airborne tanker contract and the lawmaker whose district would benefit from it argued Tuesday that aircraft performance, not domestic content, should be the deciding factor. Using the criteria of who has the "optimal" commercial airliner and the best ability...

September 11, 2007
The Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittee on Tuesday approved a $495.3 billion funding bill that would provide less than President Bush requested but avoided any provisions on the status of U.S. forces in Iraq in an effort to allow congressional approval before the new fiscal year begins. The bill includes a...

September 5, 2007
Unable to dispute the lack of political movement in Iraq, Republicans on the House Armed Services Committee on Wednesday challenged the overall value of the Government Accountability Office's assessment of the 18 benchmarks of progress and quibbled over its evaluation of whether the surge of U.S. troops has reduced violence....

August 1, 2007
Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told a House investigative committee Wednesday he did not learn that Army Cpl. Patrick Tillman, a former professional football star turned Army Ranger, was killed in Afghanistan by friendly fire until nearly a month later and does not recall ever discussing that with anyone in...

August 1, 2007
Members of a House Homeland Security subcommittee and private-sector proponents of the Registered Traveler program expressed frustration Tuesday that the widely touted effort to ease airport security delays for frequent flyers has made so little progress. One provider of the service and Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-D.C., blamed bureaucratic obstacles...

July 11, 2007
Despite years of efforts to establish an efficient multiservice logistics system, the U.S. military still lacks a comprehensive strategy for joint supply operations in combat, cannot account for more than 54,000 shipping containers sent to Iraq and Afghanistan and is hindered by multiple computer systems that cannot exchange data. And...

June 28, 2007
The Senate Foreign Affairs Committee acted Wednesday to give the State Department some help in tackling the massive backlog in passport requests triggered by homeland security legislation that requires U.S. citizens to have passport to return from visits to Mexico, Canada and the Caribbean. The committee approved on a voice...

June 18, 2007
The first round of the expected fight between congressional supporters of NASA's space exploration programs and the advocates of more terrestrially focused efforts was won easily by the earth science enthusiasts. But the upcoming rounds might get a bit tougher. Cuts in manned space activities in the omnibus fiscal 2007...

June 13, 2007
Members of the House panel overseeing the Coast Guard universally praised the commandant, Adm. Thad Allen, Tuesday for his moves to take control of the troubled Deepwater acquisition program, but expressed concerns that the service did not have enough trained procurement specialists to successfully manage the complex $24 billion effort....

June 7, 2007
Responding to a huge cost jump and persistent reliability problems in one of the Marine Corps' most important acquisition programs, the Pentagon has ordered a major restructuring that will change the contractor's payments, impose significantly greater government supervision and delay operational availability for at least four years, officials announced Thursday....

Database-level encryption had its origins in the 1990s and early 2000s in response to very basic risks which largely revolved around the theft of servers, backup tapes and other physical-layer assets. As noted in Verizon’s 2014, Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR)1, threats today are far more advanced and dangerous.

In order to better understand the current state of external and internal-facing agency workplace applications, Government Business Council (GBC) and Riverbed undertook an in-depth research study of federal employees. Overall, survey findings indicate that federal IT applications still face a gamut of challenges with regard to quality, reliability, and performance management.

PIV- I And Multifactor Authentication: The Best Defense for Federal Government Contractors

This white paper explores NIST SP 800-171 and why compliance is critical to federal government contractors, especially those that work with the Department of Defense, as well as how leveraging PIV-I credentialing with multifactor authentication can be used as a defense against cyberattacks

This research study aims to understand how state and local leaders regard their agency’s innovation efforts and what they are doing to overcome the challenges they face in successfully implementing these efforts.

The U.S. healthcare industry is rapidly moving away from traditional fee-for-service models and towards value-based purchasing that reimburses physicians for quality of care in place of frequency of care.